Add yet another thing to the list that you have never seen the Tea Party charged with …

More from the Barack Obama endorsed Occupy protest movement … Three Occupy Oakland protesters, Michael Davis, 32, Nneka Crawford, 23, and Randolph Wilkins, 24, have beencharged with robbery and hate crimes. The three remain in jail. Bail for Crawford and Wilkins is $105,000 and Davis is being held on $100,000 bail.

Michael Davis, 32, Nneka Crawford, 23, and Randolph Wilkins, 24, all of Oakland, were charged with the felonies by Assistant District Attorney Paul Hora. All remain jailed at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin. Bail for Crawford and Wilkins is $105,000 and Davis is being held on $100,000 bail.

Other possible suspects are being sought by police, said Sgt. Randy Wingate, the lead investigator.

Among the evidence against the three, besides the 42-year-old victim identifying them, is a video of the confrontation taken by a fellow Occupy Oakland protester.

The three Occupy protesters surrounded and taunted the victim before stealing her wallet. NICE. During the course of the crime when the 20 year old victims wallet was taken, the three Occupy Oakland protesters shouted “vulgar epithets regarding their perception of her sexual orientation. According to lead investigator gt. Randy Wingate, other possible suspects are being sought by police. I thought the LEFT and the 99% protesters were supposed to be so liberal minded and open minded?

Michael Davis, 32, Nneka Crawford, 23, and Randolph Wilkins, 24, confronted the woman on the streets of Oakland in February after she told them not to riot in her neighborhood, the Oakland Police said in a written release.

“She was surrounded by three protestors and battered as they yelled vulgar epithets regarding their perception of her sexual orientation,” Oakland Police spokeswoman Johnna Watson said.

The female victim was not identified except as a 20-year resident of the neighborhood.

“Her wallet was taken during the crime,” Watson said. “The victim broke away from the group and called police, who were able to arrest one suspect near the scene.”

One of the protesters shot a video of the altercation, which police viewed on the Internet. The VIDEO has since been removed from the internet for obvious reasons as it will become evidence.

Comments

I think what bothered me most about this story is to realize that, while courtesy should dictate that you don’t call people ugly names, calling someone a dyke (as I infer happened here) is a “hate crime.” I think that’s scarier even than the three accused protestors’ apparent standard of hygiene.

Melvin on
March 4th, 2012 11:05 pm

Yikes!

A Texas Grandfather on
March 5th, 2012 10:22 am

While this is an assault and robbery, the fact that there is a charge of a hate crime is ridiculous.

We can expect to see much more of the ugly behavior from the occupy movement. Their whole reason for being is to create upheaval by doing ugly acts.